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  • European electrical goods companies have teamed up with Chinese government inspectors to raid the factories of Chinese counterfeiters who are costing the industry millions of euros a year. The raids in Guangdong province in south China targeted factories producing counterfeit goods such as kettles, plugs, sockets and cookware being made to European companies' designs.
  • Business methods should remain unpatentable. That was the clear message coming from the UK last month. In a statement issued on March 13, the government stood firm in its position not to allow the patentability of business methods and to allow no change in the guidelines for patenting software. The government's stance is likely to bring the UK into direct conflict with the European Patent Office, the United States and the UK software industry, which believes it is losing out to its American colleagues.
  • Law and accountancy firms are coming under greater scrutiny in Hong Kong from April 1, under the new Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance intended to combat corporate piracy. Aimed at preventing bootlegging in places of public entertainment and combating corporate piracy, the new Ordinance targets those companies taking advantage of the loopholes in the law to avoid prosecution for copyright infringement.
  • The issue of groundless threats of infringement under section 77 of the Patents Act was considered in Singapore in Flexon (Pte) Ltd v Bean Innovation Pte Ltd and Tan Mui Teck [2001] SLR 24. Although the case concerned a patent matter, it is relevant for copyright and trade mark cases as the respective acts also contain similar provisions on groundless threats.
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  • How do you retain control over the design and rights in your website when contracting out the development? Susan Kim outlines the most important business and legal issues to consider when negotiating web site agreements
  • There is no international exhaustion in Germany. But the law on parallel imports is complicated and remains controversial. Johann Pitz examines how the courts have treated patent, trade mark and other disputes
  • In three crucial areas, the UK is under pressure to adapt its traditional trade mark practice to European standards. Lee Curtis argues that such harmonization is a culmination of the changes introduced in the 1994 Trade Marks Act
  • It will soon become easier for foreign companies to obtain domain names in Brazil. The Brazilian Internet Administration Committee is about to change its policy which requires a local presence to register a domain name in the country.